{"title":"Books by Roberto Mangabeira Unger","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781788734981","title":"The Knowledge Economy","description":"\u003cb\u003eRevolutionary account of the transformative potential of the knowledge economy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdam Smith and Karl Marx recognized that the best way to understand the economy is to study the most advanced practice of production. Today that practice is no longer conventional manufacturing: it is the radically innovative vanguard known as the knowledge economy. In every part of the production system it remains a fringe excluding the vast majority of workers and businesses. This book explores the hidden nature of the knowledge economy and its possible futures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe confinement of the knowledge economy to these insular vanguards has become a driver of economic stagnation and inequality throughout the world. Traditional mass production has stopped working as a shortcut to economic growth. But the alternative—a deepened and socially inclusive form of the knowledge economy—continues to lie beyond reach in even the richest countries. The shape of contemporary politics on both the left and the right reflects a failure to come to terms with this dilemma and to overcome it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnger explains the knowledge economy in the truncated and confined form that it has today and proposes the way to a knowledge economy for the many: changes not just in economic institutions but also in education, culture, and politics. Just as Smith and Marx did in their time, he uses an understanding of the most advanced practice of production to rethink both economics and the economy as a whole.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56306891653493,"sku":"9781788734981","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781788734981_d07f1a23-c494-4b37-bcf1-64b8a122f77f.jpg?v=1786027001"},{"product_id":"9781804292655","title":"The World and Us","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A restless visionary striving to realize the highest aspirations of modernity itself.\"\u003cbr\u003e–\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA radical re-envisioning of the human condition by the acclaimed Brazilian philosopher\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe World and Us, \u003c\/i\u003eRoberto Mangabeira Unger sets out to reinvent philosophy. His central theme is our transcendence, everything in our existence points beyond itself, and its relation to our finitude: everything that surrounds us, and we ourselves, are flawed and ephemeral.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe asks how we can live so that we die only once, instead of dying many small deaths; how we can breathe new life and new meaning into the revolutionary movement that has aroused humanity for the last three centuries, but that is now weakened and disoriented; and how we can make sense of ourselves without claiming for human beings a miraculous exception to the general regime of nature. For Unger, philosophy must be the mind on fire, insisting on our prerogative to speak to what matters most.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom this perspective, he redefines each of the traditional parts of philosophy, from ontology and epistemology to ethics and politics. He turns moral philosophy into an exploration of the contest between the two most powerful contemporary moral visions: an ethic of self-fashioning and non-conformity, and an ethic of human connection and responsibility.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd he turns political philosophy into a program of deep freedom, showing how to democratize the market economy, energize democratic politics, and give the individual worker and citizen the means to flourish amid permanent innovation.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57685768274293,"sku":"9781804293621","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":56307019809141,"sku":"9781804292655","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781804293621_8a3c9637-fe77-4a5a-a00a-a7ae2682238a.jpg?v=1792598947"},{"product_id":"9781839769092","title":"Governing the World Without World Government","description":"\u003cb\u003eHumanity faces grave dangers that can be avoided only by international cooperation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe world does not need a world government to govern itself. Roberto Mangabeira Unger argues that there is an alternative: to build cooperation among countries to advance their shared interests. We urgently need to avert war between the United States and China, catastrophic climate change, and other global public harms. We must do so, however, in a world in which sovereign states remain in command.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe opportunity for self-interested cooperation among nations is immense. Unger shows how different types of coalitions among states can seize on this opportunity and avoid the greatest dangers that we face. Unger offers a way of thinking about international relations as well as a transformative program: a realism with hope and a way to develop the international diversity that we want without the international anarchy that we fear. 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The revolution that Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Lee Smolin propose relies on three central ideas. There is only one universe at a time. Time is real: everything in the structure and regularities of nature changes sooner or later. Mathematics, which has trouble with time, is not the oracle of nature and the prophet of science; it is simply a tool with great power and immense limitations. The argument is readily accessible to non-scientists as well as to the physicists and cosmologists whom it challenges.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56312125030773,"sku":"9781107423985","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781107423985_b8f77abc-d6db-41a5-bcdc-40a04cd77adb.jpg?v=1786018049"},{"product_id":"the-religion-of-the-future","title":"The Religion of the Future","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new philosophy of religion for a secular world\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow can we live in such a way that we die only once? How can we organize a society that gives us a better chance to be fully alive? How can we reinvent religion so that it liberates us instead of consoling us?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e These questions stand at the center of Roberto Mangabeira Unger’s \u003ci\u003eThe Religion of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e: an argument for both spiritual and political revolution. It proposes the content of a religion that can survive without faith in a transcendent God or in life after death. According to this religion—the religion of the future—human beings can be more human by becoming more godlike, not just later, in another life or another time, but right now, on Earth and in their own lives. They can become more godlike without denying the irreparable flaws in the human condition: our mortality, groundlessness, and insatiability.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57487878259061,"sku":"9781784787301","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781784787301.jpg?v=1786355100"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-roberto-mangabeira-unger.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}